IPL 2022: Rajasthan's Ashwin reaches this career milestone, Twitter goes berserk; Watch
Cricket | May 11, 2022 22:10 ISTThe bowling all-rounder has made 133 runs from 12 matches with an average of 22.17 and has taken nine wickets in this season
The bowling all-rounder has made 133 runs from 12 matches with an average of 22.17 and has taken nine wickets in this season
Playing in his 85th match, the 35-year-old Ashwin went past the legendary Kapil's 434 Test scalps to become India's second most successful bowler in the longest format on Sunday.
Ravichandran Ashwin to play for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2022.
'Your legacy as a captain will stand for the kind of benchmarks you have set,' veteran spinner Ravichandran summarised Virat Kohli's spectacular Test captaincy stint.
Ashwin added that Rahul had found the solution to what he needed to respond within Test cricket, which is working for him.
India finished their first innings at 202 with Ashwin scoring a crucial 46 towards the end of the innings on a testing pitch after stand in skipper KL Rahul (50) opted to bat.
Besides Rohit and Ashwin, the other two Indians in the team were swashbuckling keeper-batter Rishabh Pant and left-arm spinner Axar Patel.
The 35-year-old from Chennai snapped 52 wickets from eight Tests at an average of 16.23 and also contributed 337 runs with the bat at 28.08 with one century in the last one year.
Kumble had achieved the 300-wicket mark in 52 matches while Ashwin touched the same in 49 matches.
Ashwin's three quick blows left New Zealand tottering at 140 for five in pursuit of an impossible 540 on day three of the second Test.
The 35-year-old spinner also surpassed Harbhajan Singh's Test cricket career haul of 417 wickets (in 103 games).
With that scalp, Ashwin in his 80th Test, crossed Harbhajan Singh (417 in 103 games) to become the third-highest wicket-taker for India in the five-day format.
Rohit's 56-run knock followed by Axar Patel's three-wicket haul helped India defeat New Zealand by 73 runs in the third and final T20I here at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Following India's five-wicket win over New Zealand in the first of the three-match T20 series, match's star performer R Ashwin (2/23) said bowling slow on the Jaipur surface did the trick for him.
In the second Qualifier against Kolkata, Ashwin dismissed Shakib al Hasan and Sunil Narine off successive deliveries and then got hit for a six off the penultimate ball.
Delhi Capitals off-spinner Ashwin ended a below par IPL 2021 campaign on Wednesday after his side bowed out of the tournament, by losing to Kolkata Knight Riders.
Gaikwad has been one of the standout performers in the second leg of IPL 2021. The Pune-based opener is at second place in the run-getter's list with 508 runs in 12 matches
Though Sehwag did not mention when the match happened, but it is certain that the incident happened during 2014 IPL.
Delhi Capitals' Ravichandran Ashwin has broken silence on the incident with Eoin Morgan and Tim Southee during the side's game against Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday.
KKR beat DC by three wickets in a low-scoring encounter but the problem had started when Ashwin tried stealing an extra run after KKR fielder Rahul Tripathi's throw ricocheted off DC captain's body.
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